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1 February 2021
Innovative solutions such as drones will ensure that even the most remote communities receive the vaccines, medicines and lab sample services they need to thrive.
KINSHASA – Today, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially launched its routine drone delivery operations to reach remote communities in the Équateur province. Through the “Drones for Health” Program, drones ensure fast turnaround transport of lifesaving vaccines, medicines, and other health products as well as laboratory samples and test results to reduce the burden of infectious diseases and prevent their spread. As the need for a rapid transportation service arises with the COVID-19 pandemic, the integration of drone technology as an additional modality into the health system comes at a critical time.
Monographic Study on demography, peace, and security in the Sahel: case of Burkina Faso
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UNFPA WCARO commissioned a monograph on “Demography, Peace and Security” in Burkina Faso to inform debates on the relationship between demography, peace and national security. It is important to note that while the direct causes of the majority of these crises should be explored in unemployment and poverty, the scarcity of resources, the scale of social inequalities and poor governance, demographic factors must be taken into account urgently and such factors are being increasingly referred to in the literature, which has sufficiently established that there is an (as yet unquantified) interrelationship between demography, peace and security.